[plug] desktop to screen

[Craig Ringer]

Cameron Patrick wrote:

> Apparently it's one of those things which has always been planned for
> X to support but no-one actually got around to writing decent client
> support for it.  Disconnects/reconnects are harder again, mainly
> because of Xlib sucking.

Yep. Thankfully there's an xlib replacement in the works, including a 
compatibility layer for xlib applications.

http://freedesktop.org/Software/xcb

Hopefully that'll take care of these issues.

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Craig Ringer